Most Americans alive in November 2010 did not vote for a Democrat or
a Republican, although every Congress critter's seat was up for
election.

There were right around 309.5 million persons in the USA at the time.
75 million of them were under age 18 and therefore not "qualified" to
vote, though many of them pay taxes, including income taxes. Yes,
whatever *did* happen to no taxation without representation?

Wikipedia suggests that 86,784,957 votes were cast across all races
and political parties. I suspect that this figure is not sufficiently
tendentious to disqualify Wikipedia as a source.
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However, embedded in those results are 3,336,832 votes cast for other
parties, besides Repugnants and Demolishers. The largest third party
in vote getting is Libertarian, by the way with nearly twice the
nearest "competing party" which is actually "independent" and
therefore not a party itself. The next largest part, the Green party,
is about a quarter the size of the Libertarian party. So we subtract
these votes to find: 83,448,125 votes cast by people who imagine that
the system works for them.

That's just under 27% of the entire population. The vast majority of
Americans are either not permitted to vote, or don't bother to vote.
Even among those who do vote, a significant number aren't willing to
vote for the major parties because, let's face it, the Democrats and
Republicans are evil - their parties are evil, their policies are
evil, they suck the lifeblood from taxpayers, they hate humanity,
they rape with impunity, bomb foreign countries, and slaughter little
children.

Am I serious about children having equal rights as adults? Yes, I
am. When a young woman of age twelve goes to a petrol station and
buys a gallon of fuel for her lawnmower, she is paying state and
federal taxes, and she is denied suffrage because of her age. She is
taxed without being represented. Under your system, that makes her a
second class person, a slave.

These results are unequivocal. Fully 73% of the population does not
agree with the mainstream media and their darling Demolishers and
rabid Repugnants. Most Americans, by the reported figures, would not
vote for an incumbent Republican or an incumbent Democrat, would not
vote for a challenger from either party. By staying home, they
exercised their own mandate.

Why? Because Carroll Quigley convinced the two parties' leadership
to be identical in policies. Both parties send hundreds of thousands
of men and women to occupy foreign countries, to slaughter civilians
all over the world, to occupy over 800 military bases and outposts on
all seven continents, in over 160 countries. Both parties support
the Federal Reserve's rape and pillaging of the economy, endless
issuance of governmentally-authorised but fully counterfeit "money,"
and unconstitutional emission of bills of credit to attempt to
encumber seven future generations of Americans with trillions in
debt. Both parties are in the pay of the financial, military,
industrial, pharmaceutical, and agribiz cartels. Both parties
support endless government agencies and endless millions of pages of
government regulations to thwart individual initiative and attack
private party. Both parties support putting your neighbours in cages
and stealing their property under civil asset forfeiture.

These grievances are an indictment of the status quo, an indictment
of every serving politician in power today. These people are not
representative of American opinion, are not representative of the
majority, are violent, vicious knaves, and they live in wood houses
in our communities.

The choices before the American people include looking for ways to
further withdraw from the system, learn new ways to generate income
and hide wealth from the system, and violent revolution to overthrow
a system which no longer represents them, which attacks them
violently, and which deserves to be destroyed. If every politician
and every banker were dragged out of their homes and eviscerated on
their front lawns by maddened crowds, it would not surprise me. And
it probably wouldn't change much, either.

Of those choices before the American people today, I favour
withdrawal, the strategy of Etienne de la Boetie, Sam Konkin, and
Laozi. I prefer to see fewer of my friends mangled by injustice.

But when fighting becomes the only way, I say, let's give them a
fight they won't ever forget.

Jim Davidson is an author, entrepreneur, and anti-war activist. His
1990 venture to offer a sweepstakes trip into space was destroyed by
government action as was his free port and prospective space port in
Somalia in 2001. His 2002-2007 venture in free market money and
private stock exchange was destroyed by government action in 2007.
He's going to Mars if he has to walk. His second book, Being
Sovereign is now availble from
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He is currently working on a book about travel to
Mars with John Wayne Smith, a book with international fugitive Chad
Z. Hower on his story, a book on sovereign self-defence, and a book
compiling his letters and essays in The Libertarian Enterprise from
1995 to 2010. Contact him at or
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